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Chemical Safety Article

A message board member/viewer sent me this safety story to post on the forums. The article states that brake cleaner can break down into a harmful gas. Here is the link: http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm

A message board member/viewer sent me this safety story to post on the forums. The article states that brake cleaner can break down into a harmful gas. Here is the link: http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm

... into phosgene -- which first gained world wide infamy in 1915
in the trenches of the Western Front. It was used as a chemical
weapon in WW-1, low concentrations are very toxic -- which is what
made it useful as a chemical weapon

Not to discredit the post by any means. but how does he know there was not some other contaminate on the metal besides the brake cleaner? Mike

Crawdaddy,
Not to be a wise guy, but if there were even the slightest chance this were true why would you care about other contaminants when the chemical used was brake cleaner? All of the injuries that were mentioned are fairly permanent. My thoughts would be no brake cleaner ever!!!!
Nick

Not to discredit the post by any means. but how does he know there was not some other contaminate on the metal besides the brake cleaner? Mike

That's a bit like wondering if formaldehyde fumes are causing sick-building syndrome inside the execution chamber on death row.

I'm sure there were at least traces of many other things, but they were obviously in concentrations multiple orders of magnitude lower than the chlorinated organic solvent that was saturating the surface.

80% of failures are from 20% of causesNever compromise your principles today in the name of furthering them in the future."All I ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work." -Sgt. Bilko"We are generally better persuaded by reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others." -Pascal"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything." -Pascal

Crawdaddy,
Not to be a wise guy, but if there were even the slightest chance this were true why would you care about other contaminants when the chemical used was brake cleaner? All of the injuries that were mentioned are fairly permanent. My thoughts would be no brake cleaner ever!!!!
Nick

That is probably a good idea not to use brake cleaner,But my point is There is no proof the brake cleaner actually caused the problem described by the original poster,no way you can say without doing baseline testing on the part first to determine what was or was not present and in what concentrations, And how many welders can be certain that the metal they are working with has not been exposed to a variety of contaminates during its service life before they recieve the project, you have no way of knowing without a chain of custody documenting where that part has been and what was done to it.Mike

That's a bit like wondering if formaldehyde fumes are causing sick-building syndrome inside the execution chamber on death row.

I'm sure there were at least traces of many other things, but they were obviously in concentrations multiple orders of magnitude lower than the chlorinated organic solvent that was saturating the surface.

Dont mean to be a doubting Thomas,But people are taking this guys post about his bad experience and treating it like the guy did a controlled scientific experiment.Just like the alleged workers pissing in the Corona beer one person starts it and everyone takes it for fact.Mike